^#smrgDERGİ Harper's Magazine - Vol: 315 October

Letters High School, Inc. Notebook Specific Suggestion: General Strike Harper's Index Readings Vivoleum The Spy Who Came In and Was Cold Elbows To the Bat Closet God Has Been Cloned! Notes for the Time of Ultimate Candor Two Poems And ... Essay DISASTER CAPITALISM The new economy of catastrophe Folio THE RIVER IS A ROAD Searching for peace in Congo Annotation CONTRACT WITH AMERICA Hard terms for the soldier of fortune Report TOXIC INACTION Why poisonous, unregulated chemicals end up in our blood Miscellany A CURIOUS ATTRACTION On the quest for antigravity Story ADMIRAL Reviews NEW BOOKS I BURIED A NOVELIST Philip Roth and the end of Zuckerman A RAWNESS OF SEEING Denis Johnson writes the Big Novel Puzzle Findings 4 Geoffrey Hall, Stuart Margulies 9 Garret Keizer 15 17 the Yes Men finally solve the energy crisis Mr. Scheuer goes to Washington Tiziano Scarpa where are our gay superheroes now? mass self-annihilation with Jean Baud rillard Laura (Riding) Jackson Breyten Breytenbach Mamma Andersson, Mr. Fish, Rosamond Purcell, and will history absolve Castro's grooming? 47 Naomi Klein 59 Bryan Mealer 74 Daphne Eviacar 78 Mark Schapiro 84 Jon Mooallem 92 T. C. Boyle 103 John Leonard Wyatt Mason John Jeremiah Sullivan 119 Richard E. Maltby Jr. 120 Cover: Saint Walhurga and the Mira-cle of the Ship (detail). by Pei, Pont Rubens E,ich Lessing/Art Resource, New took City •